How to Protect Your Most Important Resources - Your Time

SUMMARY 

This week let’s talk about the No.1 thing you must protect in order to be productive. Oh ya, your time. We all have 24 hours a day. Time is our most important resource. Without time, nothing matters. So in order to make more time for those things that matter to you, you must protect your most important resources. Your time!

Here are 2 ways to protect your time. First, is the toughest of all. Say “NO” more often. Sometimes, I struggle with this as well. Most of the time, we’re people pleaser…. We say “YES” to almost all the requests from everyone. Ranging from the workplace till the family. We tend to divide our time to everyone except ourselves. If you always say “YES”, you are constantly accessible to others. One quote from Micheal Hyatt really strikes me hard “Giving everyone access to you actually reduces accessibility for the people who need you most”. It is so so true. If you spend the time always responding to other people's agenda, you’ll have less and less time to work on your own important task.

The second way is delegation. Yes, delegation. This sounds simple. But is hard to do it. Most of the people fail to delegate their tasks. So, they ended up feeling more stress and time-consuming. If you have a task which can delegate to others whether in your personal or professional life, delegate to others. First by mentoring them how to complete the task successfully, then next time when they do the task, you monitor them. Learning how to deliver the correct instructions and messages to others is crucial at this point. When they know the way, they can be a great helper to speed up your work. So, you can focus on the most important task to complete it successfully. If you are successful to delegate, I promise you, your productivity will improve by 5 x.

You’ re the guard standing at the gate to protect your own time, and no one will do this for you! You’re the one responsible for where your times go. Be an excellent guardian to protect your precious time.  

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